focus-sensitive ellipsis

The height of let alone in English: Evidence from inversion and contrastive topics

This paper presents an analysis of the let alone structure in English (Fillmore et al., 1988). Concentrating on inversion structures, I further develop the stripping ellipsis analysis presented in Harris (2016) with two additional claims. First, the …

The enduring effects of default focus in let alone ellipsis: Evidence from pupillometry

The study of clausal ellipsis in sentence processing has revealed that comprehenders are sensitive to multiple, sometimes conflicting, pressures when recovering elided content. This paper presents a pupillometry experiment investigating how the human …

Information structure preferences in focus-sensitive ellipsis: How defaults persist

We compare the roles of overt accent and default focus marking in processing ellipsis structures headed by focus-sensitive coordinators (such as Danielle couldn't pass the quiz, let alone the final/Kayla). In a small auditory corpus study of radio …